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• Former president George W. Bush is the keynote speaker at the annual Manufacturer and Business Association meeting at the Bayfront Convention Center.[1]
• A couple from Erie's sister city of Dungarvan, Ireland are visiting the city for Saint Patrick's Day. [2]
• Inventor and Erie native John Kanzius dies. [3]
• The Gudgeonville Covered Bridge was severely damaged by fire by an arsonist.[4]
• A 2009 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is bought by an Erie resident for $514,000.[5]
• Erie receives its first snowfall of the winter season.[6]
• U.S. Representatives Phil English debates challenger Kathy Dahlkemper for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district race.[7]
• ABC's Good Morning America stops at the Union Station as part of their "whistle stop tour".[8]
• The first building is turn down for the Erie International Airport runway extension project.[9]
• Republican presidential candidate John McCain tours the GE Transportation locomotive plant with Tom Ridge.[10]
• Mayor Sinnott presents a midyear report that projects a $256,200 budget surplus for 2008.
• The state cuts funding for the Brig Niagara by $100,000. [11]
• Gull Point in Presque Isle State Park is being eroded and may become an island if sand isn't replenished.[12]
• The Marx Toy Museum sells off its collection of Marx toys to collectors after it closed from the lack of volunteers and funding.[13]
• The Ravine Flyer II roller coaster opens at Waldameer Park.[14]
• EMTA plans to add regular bus service to Presque Isle Downs.[15]
• A thief steals $1,200 worth of scrap metal from a PennDOT construction site on PA 408 in Crawford County.[16]
• GE shareholders meet at the Bayfront Convention Center to elect new members to their board of directors.[17]
• Senator Barack Obama makes his first appearance in Erie at Penn State Behrend.[18]
• Former President Bill Clinton and actor Ted Danson campaign for Hillary at Penn State Behrend.[19]
• A firefighter with the Lawrence Park Township Volunteer Fire Department is killed in the line of duty.[20]
• Mayor Joe Sinnott and other local officials meet with the FAA in Harrisburg on the proposed runway extension at Erie International.[21]
• Road construction on Interstate 79 near Meadville is expected to begin for the summer.[22]
• Homeowners in the path of the proposed runway extension at Erie International finally move.
• Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a suspect who made threatening phone calls to WJET-TV.[23]
• A black bear was spotted in Presque Isle State Park by a park ranger.[24]
• A suspected pipe bomb is discovered and removed from the steps of the Erie County Courthouse. [25]
• Strong winds with gusts up 54 mph (87 km/h) topple a 700-pound cross off the steeple of a church and causes Presque Isle Bay to rise 5 to 6 feet (1.8 m). [26]
• An employee of the Erie County "Office of Children and Youth" contracts and dies from the MRSA virus. (Erie Times-News)
• The Erie Zoo's new polar bear arrives to replace the bear that died during leg surgery in August 2006. (Erie Times-News)
• An inmate from the Albion State Penitentiary escapes with the unsuspecting help of a Crawford County hog farmer. (Erie Times-News)
• An island off the coast of Antarctica is named after researchers Chuck and Maggie Amsler from North East. (Erie Times–News)
• The season's first lake effect snowfall occurs in Erie on November 6. (Erie Times–News)
• The cause of Furhman's Cider Mill fire is determined to have been a malfunctioning adding machine (Erie Times-News)
• Charles Brandt is sentenced to life in prison for killing his 9 month pregnant wife in 2006.(Erie Times–News)
• Fuhrman's Cider Mill, a 111-year old cider mill, burns to ground. Cause of blaze is unclear. (Erie Times-News)
• The boilers of the new Lake Erie Biofuels plants were fired up for the first time causing a loud, roaring noise that could be heard for more than a mile in Lawrence Park. (Erie Times-News)
• State tourism officials are hoping to draw tourists to Northwest Pennsylvania by "touting" the region's maple syrup industry at the World Travel Market in London, England with a new 7-page brochure. (Erie Times-News)
• PennDOT is stockpiling 50,000 tons of salt, 60,000 gallons of salt brine and fitting snowplows and salt spreaders to its 43 trucks for the upcoming Erie winter. (Erie Times-News)
• A Circle K convenience store on West 26^th Street is robbed...again. (Erie Times-News)
• US Airways announced plans to drop service to Erie International Airport from Pittsburgh. In 2005, US Airways dropped service to Charlotte Douglas International Airport from Erie. US Airways only remaining destination is Philadelphia. (Erie Times-News)